Researchers Use Smartwatch To Spy What Users Are Typing On a Keyboard

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have created an app that follows the micro-movements of your smartwatch and is able to detect what keys you're pressing with your left hand, and guess what words you may be typing on a keyboard. The app developed for the Motion Leaks (MoLe) project only works on a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch, but researchers say that in theory, a similar app could be developed for other smartwatch makes and models.

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eagle system

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I doubt that. I'm using the eagle system, circling over the keyboard until I detect the prey (right key) and then I let it fall down on it (or near it) naturally always with the same finger.
It should be easier with touch typists.

Don't dig too deep, you won't like what you see

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Researchers have created an app that follows the micro-movements of your smartwatch and is able to detect what keys you're pressing with your left hand...

I think they'll detect other kinds of movements made with the left hand.

Re:Fooled ya!

[I'm New Around Here]

Fool! You think these scientists haven't thought of that? Of course they have.

The interesting part is that it still captures what the left hand is doing. Some weird entanglement issue, I believe.